Current thinking: Return to play and transient quadriplegia

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-32

  Cantu, Robert V ^a   Cantu, Robert C ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NECK INJURY; QUADRIPLEGIA; REMISSION; REVIEW; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; SPORTS MEDICINE; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS; WORK CAPACITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; FOOTBALL; HOCKEY; HUMANS; MALE; NECK INJURIES; QUADRIPLEGIA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPORTS MEDICINE; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33745533665     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CSMR.0000306068.21649.da     Document Type: Article

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